内容摘要：Professor Chris Hanretty from Royal Holloway University suggests boundary changes have meant some constituencies like Wimbledon in south London have become somewhat more of a three-way contest, making it more difficult to predict the results.

Professor Chris Hanretty from Royal Holloway University suggests boundary changes have meant some constituencies like Wimbledon in south London have become somewhat more of a three-way contest, making it more difficult to predict the results.

Frank Baylis, a former Liberal member of parliament, was the first out of the gate to announce he is seeking the leadership of the party.He has said he will bring his experience from the world of business to address the affordability and cost-of-living challenges facing Canadians.

Baylis is the executive chairman of a medical device company that was founded by his mother and where he later served as president. It was sold to a US firm in 2021. He is an engineer by training.Baylis served in parliament from 2015-2019 and was a founding member of the Parliamentary Black Caucus.He has been heavily critical of Trudeau's approach to Trump's tariff threats and has claimed he would deal with Trump better than his opponents, casting his outsider experience as a businessman as a strength.

"Whether we like it or not, the Americans have put as a president a highly aggressive bully of a man, who's a businessman," he told The Canadian Press. "And people coming from a genteel world of bureaucrats or banking, they're not going to know how to deal with this character," he said, taking aim at his opponents.Many prominent cabinet ministers chose not to run in this race, including Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne, who all said they need to focus on their current duties.

Jaime Battiste, a member of parliament (MP) from the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia, dropped out earlier in the race.

Another hopeful, former Toronto area MP Ruby Dhalla, was kicked out of the race over "extremely serious" violations, the party said. Those include allegations of inaccuracies in her campaign's financial reporting. Ms Dhalla has appealed the decision.“We still live in a country with all the opportunities to have a career. We still have all the rights, but we have the right to choose to live more traditionally.”

Aside from ideological debates, discussions have focussed on the social and cultural factors that could be influencing young women to quit work - or at least aspire to a softer lifestyle.Sweden has a reputation for work life balance - most employees get

and less than 1% work more than 50 hours a week.Still, Ungdomsbaromatern’s research suggests rising stress levels amongst young people, and Ms Göransson believes soft girls trend may be an extension of recent global work trends such as